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The American children's television series Sesame Street has a long history in Japan, airing for three decades as a dubbed program, and recently restarting as a local co-production.

The Armstrongs is a British television drama/documentary series broadcast on the BBC in the UK. The Armstrongs is an access-all-areas insight into the unorthodox and sometimes ruthless business antics that are par for the course at "U-Fit", Coventry's third-biggest double glazing company. The show is narrated by actor Bill Nighy. This was the second TV outing for the Armstrongs. The first was in a one-off documentary in 2003 called "The Office Christmas Party", which showed the preparations for U-Fit's Christmas party. There is some discussion as to whether it is a true fly-on-the wall documentary, a fictional comedy with an elaborately constructed presence on the internet, or a mixture of the two. Note that U-Fit the company appears in the online Yellow Pages.

Examining reactions to life-threatening situations.

Time Team America is an American television series that airs on PBS. It premiered on July 8, 2009. It is an Oregon Public Broadcasting adaptation of the British show Time Team, produced in collaboration with Channel 4 which commissioned the original show, in which a team of archeologists and other experts are given 72 hours to excavate an historic site. The U.S. version features "freelance and university-affiliated experts [who] mostly join existing excavations...[and] arrive with resources that the archaeologists already on the case usually can’t afford and specific questions that, if answered, will advance the understanding of the site." A second season was announced on October 18, 2011, scheduled to shoot during the summer of 2012 and to air in 2013. On December 20, 2011 it was announced that Justine Shapiro would host the second season.

My Brand New is a Canadien television series that premiered on YTV on July 4, 2004. The series brings together kids from different backgrounds and experiences and invites them to switch lives.

Islands of Britain is a 2009 documentary series, filmed over the summers of 2008 and 2009, hosted by Martin Clunes, which visited a number of the islands that lie off the coast of Great Britain.

The Golden Era of NASCAR is a 3 part series that covers the early years of NASCAR – that all-American racing series that formed from the beach racers of Daytona and the moonshiners and bootleggers of the prohibition era. Essential viewing for anyone with a love for motor racing history. Episodes appeared on The History Channel and Turner South.

A series of documentary feature films.

Series of documentaries on italian underground cinema through the portrayal of some of the most representative authors - Alfredo Leonardi, Tonino De Bernardi, Romano Scavolini, Piero Bargellini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Alberto Grifi, Paolo Brunatto, Franco Brocani (and Mario Schifano), Paolo Gioli, Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi, Annabella Miscuglio, Massimo Bacigalupo - the cinema of the present confronts this movement so vital and courageous, which still remains an example for the new generations.

The Skinny Dip is a half hour long Canadian travel and adventure television series hosted by Eve Kelly and produced by Best Boy Entertainment. The show premiered on July 9, 2008 at 9 pm EST on Canadian digital cable specialty channel, travel + escape, which commissioned six new episodes, the first of which premiered on November 18, 2009.

Presented by Morgan Freeman from his Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale Mississippi. What was the Blues music that came out of the Delta and how did it develop into Jazz and Soul? Using interviews with musicians and musicologists and with unique access to the archive of the Montreux Jazz Festival we tell this story of American music. Essential viewing for Jazz fan and historian alike.

The documentary traces the causes, courses, major events and personalities of the American Civil War.

5th Dimension was a six episode documentary series that aired on Discovery Channel in 2006. The episodes were 50 minutes in length. The series was distributed by Parthenon entertainment, and was originally produced by German MPR Film und Fernsehproduktion GmbH in 2005.

America's policy of non-interventionism had reduced its military to a bare minimum, but the threats posed by the Nazi regime in Europe and the Japanese empire in the Pacific turned a peace-loving state into the world's leading military power ... until our days. From the courageous and long-suffering infantry, which drove the Nazis from the conquered territories of Western Europe during World War II, to the overwhelming navy, which recovered from the attack on Pearl Harbor, becoming an invincible force. This, without forgetting the Air Force, whose pilots and planes destroyed the deadly German Luftwaffe and killed thousands of feared Japanese "zeroes". And, above all of them, the legendary marine infantry, the brave marines.

This is a series documenting the 2009 European Tour of Vic Chesnutt and Elf Power supporting their collaborative album entitled Dark Developments released on Orange Twin Records (2008). The film, shot mostly by Vic himself, documents the day to day of the band's travels across Europe on a 4 week tour.

Series that gets inside the hearts and minds of 23 real-life kindergarten students as they test the waters of academia for the first time.

Godfathers investigates the mob like no other documentary before it. From the mass immigration of Italians at the end of the 19th century to money laundering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2000, this up-to-date, feature-length production offers a unique perspective on the history of the Mafia as seen through the eyes of an Italian journalist. With newly discovered footage from Italian archives and rare interviews from both sides of the law, Godfathers probes the psychology, the sociology, and the economics behind this powerful yet secretive society. Some of the biggest names in mafia history are introduced, and the ways in which their political savvy helped them orchestrate many of history's major events is explained.

Combat school is an immersive, adrenaline-fuelled documentary series that takes viewers through the paces of the most intense and advanced military training in our nation's history, in the boots of real soldiers whose next stop is the battleground of Afghanistan.

These fun and fact-filled documentaries span the history and development of the railroad industry, from the building of the first trans-continental line to the height of steam engine operations during World War II and the eventual triumph of diesel over steam. Relive the thrill of riding the rails across the ever-changing American landscape and experience the challenges, the romance and the day-to-day operations of America's greatest railroads. Take a nostalgic look back at a classic way of life as we introduce you to the people and machines that built the great American Railroad.

Automaniac was a TV show hosted by former professional wrestler Bill Goldberg. In each episode, Goldberg told the story of a particular type of vehicle: its origins, its designers, etc. The show aired on Wednesdays at 11 PM EST/10 PM CST on The History Channel and was canceled in August 2005.

The Air Force from the first planes in 1907 to its influential presence in every conflict since.

Nile is a 2004 BBC Television documentary that tells the history and natural history of the Nile.

To understand Islam and its global community of over a billion believers, delve into the epic story of Prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam with the Quran. A fascinating documentary recounts his life from Mecca in 571 to his death in 632. Testimonies from Muslim families, imams, and Arab and international academics illuminate the Prophet’s life, the revelation of the Quran, and its compilation by the first caliphs. Sumptuous images from six countries illustrate these accounts.

Fred Dibnah traces the development of steam power from the earliest experiments in the ancient world to the modern nuclear power station.

How Sci-Fi Saved My Life investigates the many fascinating projects of real life that were inspired by sci-fi hits, and examines how they might change life on earth - and beyond - as we now know it. A mini-series in 4 1-hour episodes: "Terminator Saved My Life" "The Matrix Saved My Life" "Stargate Saved My Life" "Men in Black Saved My Life"

Dumped is a British reality television programme which started on 2 September 2007 and aired nightly until 5 September 2007 on Channel 4. It involved 11 contestants living for three weeks on a rubbish dump next to a landfill site near Croydon, Surrey. The contestants who "survived" the 21 days and used only what they found on the dump were awarded £20,000 to share equally between them. The working title of the programme was Eco-Challenge. One contestant, Darren Lumsden, voluntarily left the programme on Day 3. The series was promoted with a large publicity campaign, which included advertisements on websites and a concert by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The programme achieved a peak of 2.4 million viewers, although this was marginally less than the number of people watching other channels at the same time. The programme was criticised because it was filmed on an artificial landfill and for its choice of "fame hungry" contestants.

Chronicles the Vietnam War from inception to ending.

A four-part documentary on rock band Led Zeppelin.